bifa-defra-brexit

Defra clarifies endangered species rules

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has issued additional guidance on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), says BIFA.  Forwarders were concerned  about how the movement of products covered by this regime, which are  manufactured in the EU - using for example lizard, snake or crocodile skins - and currently freely imported into the UK, might be affected post-Brexit. BIFA sought greater guidance from ... [+]